My friend is a reiki practitioner. She was training for her level 1 and she practiced on me. For me, it worked, and I'm fairly skeptical and cynical about things. Whether it is just having someone pay attention to you, knowing that someone cares enough to make you feel better, or whether the energies really do work I don't know. But there you go.

My hairdresser is also a holisitic healer/ reiki therapist, and she is being integrated into Birmingham Hospital Good Hope, along with the conventional therapies. I think that it often works for conditions of a more mental nature. I do think that we are beings with more aspects to us than the purely physical, and I think that we should be open to these things. Having said that, I also believe that you should be very careful in who you have to do these treatments for you, as there are some quacks out there. Then again, I've had experiences with conventional medical practitioners who didn't have a clue. It goes both ways, I think.

I have endometreosis. which causes a lot of internal pain. prior to the medical field's discovery of my disease, I was getting desperate. I had been in pain for almost every day of a year. my boyfriend's mom does reiki, and offered to treat me. as a scientist and a skeptic I agreed. the experience itself is calming. and the mental ability to cope with the pain was renewed. I wouldn't say it fixed everything. but it was calming. post this experience, I had a laparascopy. this removed lesions and scar tissue. one of the most interesting parts was that during my reiki she asked if my left ovary hurt, as there was disturbance around it. it didn't. but during my surgery they removed a large band of scar tissue that had engulfed my left ovary. so I'm still skeptical, but the experience does lend itself to pain management.

yes I have been attuned to Reiki 1 and Reiki 2.
Reiki has opened my eyes to a whole new world and brought a lot of massive changes and insights.

"she was my better half and I was just a dog"
"I don't have a drinking problem except when I can't get a drink"
"No, the moon ain't romantic, it's intimidating as hell
And some guy's trying to sell me a watch"
-- Tom Waits Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

I would like to know whether being attuned to Reiki master symbol produces big and potentially scary changes in your life at an accelerated rate as this is what I have heard?

"she was my better half and I was just a dog"
"I don't have a drinking problem except when I can't get a drink"
"No, the moon ain't romantic, it's intimidating as hell
And some guy's trying to sell me a watch"
-- Tom Waits Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

As far as I know Reiki is incredibly relaxing, my mother does it .. well what she calls it the theraputic touch. Which is amazing she has done some wonderful things. When I have it done I feel a lot of lighter emotionally.